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Pathways to the Middle Class in Turkey : How Have Reducing Poverty and Boosting Shared Prosperity Helped?

Azevedo, João Pedro - 2017

Turkey's poverty reduction performance in the 2000s has been remarkably consistent. Extreme and moderate poverty have … regions, such as Latin America, where redistribution contributed to poverty reduction almost four times more than in Turkey …. Turkey has also achieved sustained consumption growth of the bottom 40 percent of the population, even during the years of …

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Distributional Impact Analysis of the Energy Price Reform in Turkey

Zhang, Fan - 2017

A pricing reform in Turkey increased the residential electricity tariff by more than 50 percent in 2008. The reform …

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Hunting for Leopards : Long Run Country Income Dynamics in Africa

Arbache, Jorge Saba - 2016

This paper examines the country-level dynamics of long-run growth in Africa between 1975 and 2005. The authors examine how growth has affected mobility and the distribution of income among countries. They analyze changes in cross-country income structure and convergence, and look for evidence of...

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Poverty, Inequality, and Social Disparities During China's Economic Reform

Dollar, David - 2016

China has been the most rapidly growing economy in the world over the past 25 years. This growth has fueled a remarkable increase in per capita income and a decline in the poverty rate from 64 percent at the beginning of reform to 10 percent in 2004. At the same time, however, different kinds of...

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What is the Impact of International Remittances on Poverty and Inequality in Latin America?

Acosta, Pablo A. - 2016

Workers' remittances have become a major source of income for developing countries. However, little is still known about their impact on poverty and inequality. Using a large cross-country panel dataset, the authors find that remittances in Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries have...

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Did Growth Become Less Pro-Poor in the 1990s?

Lopez, Humberto - 2016

The author analyzes the stability of the empirical relationship between growth and changes in inequality over time. He concludes that while during the 1970s and 1980s the growth process was not accompanied by increases in inequality, during the 1990s a positive and significant correlation...

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Growth, Inequality, and Poverty : A Robust Relationship?

Marrero, Gustavo A. - 2018

An extensive literature on poverty traps suggests that high levels of poverty deter growth. However, a seemingly basic implication of the underlying theoretical models, namely that countries suffering from higher levels of poverty should grow less rapidly, has remained untested. A parallel...

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Inequality and Economic Growth : The Role of Initial Income

Brueckner, Markus - 2018

This paper estimates a panel model in which the relationship between inequality and gross domestic product per capita growth depends on countries' initial incomes. Estimates of the model show that the relationship between inequality and gross domestic product per capita growth is significantly...

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Uncertainty in Ex-Ante Poverty and Income Distribution : Insights from Output Growth and Natural Resource Country Typologies

Mendez Ramos, Fabian - 2019

This paper studies future poverty, inequality, and shared prosperity outcomes using a panel data set with 150 countries over 1980-2014. The findings suggest that global extreme poverty will decrease in absolute and relative terms in the period 2015-2030. However, absolute poverty is likely to...

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Weak Instruments in Growth Regressions : Implications for Recent Cross-Country Evidence on Inequality and Growth

Kraay, Aart - 2017

This paper revisits four recent cross-country empirical studies on the effects of inequality on growth. All four studies report strongly significant negative effects, using the popular system generalized method of moments estimator that is frequently used in cross-country growth empirics. This...

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